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As understand it Musk has had the X algorithms tweaked to make him an ultra-user, so that anything he posts reaches x1000 more people than the standard punter. So a billion might be possible! Hopefully 99.9% of them have deleted it without listening to two hours of cr*p.
I noticed that after he purchased it his posts started appearing in the slots of ads (fortunately muting him still works).
Funnily enough he was primarily touring California so its possible.
Or Moscow
At the moment on twitter you can still mute people you don't want on your timeline . Click on the user profile that you want to ignore, hover over the kebab menu (the button with 3 dots) and pick Mute from the menu.
There aren’t even a billion accounts on Twitter.
Fair point - so as well as tweaking the algorithms Musk shares Trump's tendency to multiply everything by a few orders of magnitude (e.g "there are millions crossing the Southern border every month").
What the site has done is treat every entry or attempted entry to the Space as a new view. It was broken for a long time at the start of the Space, apparently, with people just endlessly refreshing hundreds of times, and he is also treating people who tweeted about it (even if they hadn't viewed it) as a "listen".
All in all, a perfect match for Trump until the inevitable cataclysmic (for both of them hopefully) break-up occurs when Musk realises he's backing a loser, again. First will come the ditching of Vance, then when that makes no difference in the polls all the talk in MAGA circles behind the scenes will be the replacement of Trump for the election, which the latter might just be more willing than Biden to consider in return for canyons full of cash plus a safe haven (Venezuala, Russia?) with yet another wife he's bought, thus ensuring he never gets his just incarceratory desserts.
If Trump loses the election I think Musk will also begin to give up on Twitter. It is merely a plaything for him.
Is there any realistic prospect of Vance being ditched?
And, with an awareness that this is bit tin foil hat, I think that he also sees Twitter as a way of influencing events in the direction he wants them to go in. If it turns out that Twitter cannot provide the influence I think that's another reason he'll want to get out of Twitter. What's the point of dealing with the aggro when its achieving nothing tangible.
All the Republicans in authority appear to have bowed to the will of Trump, so I can't see any pesky party rules being enforced if he decides to drop Vance.
So a conversation along the lines of ''it might be in your long-term interests to withdraw, so we don't have to resort to the nuclear option.''
Indeed - I know I've said something along the same lines before, so I apologise for the repetition, but my husband is a dual national US/UK and gets to vote in both, and because the last place we both lived was Raleigh, NC, he gets a vote in North Carolina. He's moaned about this in the past, but I've tried to reason with him that his vote in NC counts for something whereas in California it kind of doesn't, since it's a given who will win there. NC was said to be a closer call than it turned out to be in the last Presidential election, but I hope it's closer this time round. Of course he's voting Democrat, if that's not obvious. And I agree that if Harris starts to lead there, it's massively significant.
Whoever replaces Vance would have to be really effective for it to work, which is unlikely as they'd have to be loyal to Trump, which doesn't correlate with competency. If Vance is replaced then any advantage Trump had in the Democrats having to make a last-ditch change of candidate will evaporate.
